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HISTORY OF THE [book. iv. 
ans. In the British West Indies, most of the ne¬ 
groes purchased on the Gold coast, are known by 
the general appellation of Koromantees , from Ko- 
romantyn, one of the earliest of our factories on 
this part of the African coast, as hath been already- 
observed, but which is now become an insignifi¬ 
cant village, or factory, in possession of the Dutch. 
It is situated in the kingdom of Fantyn, two miles 
from the fort of Anamaboe.—I believe that the 
same, or different dialects of the same language, 
is spoken throughout all the Gold coast countries. 
From the river Volta to the river Lagos, extends 
the Whidah country, (at present a province to the 
king of Dahomey, a great inland kingdom), by some 
geographers considered as part of the Gold coast; 
by others denominated The Slave Coast proper. It 
begins with the small and barren state of Koto or 
Lampi, next to which is the kingdom of Adra, 
comprehending the subordinate maritime princi¬ 
palities of Great and Little Popo, or Papaw; from 
whence the Whidah negroes are called generally, 
by the British traders, Papaws. The Whidah lan¬ 
guage, except as to the inhabitants of Koto is pe¬ 
culiar and appropriate. The people of Koto speak 
a dialect of the Gold coast, and there is a tribe of 
Whidah negroes called nagoes, who have a dialect 
which, though understood by the Papaws, differs 
from the Whidah language in many particulars. 
West of the river Lagos begins the great king¬ 
dom of Benin, the coast of which forms a gulph 
